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To: blam
Good article, but two problems:

If the iceman was male, then these living individuals are not descended from him but from his mother's lineage. Mitochondrial DNA is passed from mother to daughter, and this guy, as a male, could not pass his mtDNA to his children. His children would get their mother's mtDNA, not his.

And the stupid article didn't even mention which haplogroup they found! Some of us really want to know those things.

4 posted on 04/26/2008 7:16:14 PM PDT by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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To: Coyoteman
"And the stupid article didn't even mention which haplogroup they found! Some of us really want to know those things."

Don't fret, as an example of the MSM, if they had reported it, they would have gotten it wrong anyway.

6 posted on 04/26/2008 7:29:18 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: Coyoteman
"And the stupid article didn't even mention which haplogroup they found! Some of us really want to know those things. "

It was a 'feel good' PC article. I've noticed most articles do not list the haplogroup.

7 posted on 04/26/2008 7:36:34 PM PDT by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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